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Deep dive into seaborn : meet the datasets

Python plotting : All you should know about handling seaborn datasets

Yoann Mocquin
Analytics Vidhya
Published in
3 min readDec 16, 2020

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In this article, we will see what are the datasets sample that seaborn provides and how to work with them. We will also see that you can configure a local-dataset repo that integrates seamlessly with seaborn interface.

Let’s get started !

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To demonstrate seaborn and its powerfull plotting functions, it is convenient to have sample datasets quickly available to plot. For this, seaborn provides a simple interface to load dataset into pandas dataframes.

List datasets

As of today (16/12/2020, seaborn v0.11), seaborn provides 18 datasets that are stored in a dedicated github repository :

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